Cytokine gene expression in innately susceptible BALB/c mice and relatively resistant C57BL/6 mice during infection with virulent Burkholderia pseudomallei

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 2034-2042

  Ulett, Glen C ^a   Ketheesan, Natkunam ^b   Hirst, Robert G ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK;

ANIMALS; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-12; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKIN-6; LIVER; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0034100622     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.4.2034-2042.2000     Document Type: Article

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